Flora Capensis: Ranunculaceae to Connaraceae. 1859-1860L. Reeve, 1894 |
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1-2 inches long 2-3 lines long acuminate acute anthers axillary base beneath bracts branches branchlets broadly calyx calyx-lobes Cape capsule carpels ciliate claw cordate corolla cuneate cymes densely downy Drege Drupe Endl erect feet high filiform flat fleshy flowers Fruit glabrous glands glandular hairy Herb herbaceous hispid Hook imbricate Jacq keeled lanceolate leaflets leafy Leaves alternate leaves on long Lehm limb linear lines wide Linn lobes long petioles longer lower leaves minute mucronate mucronulate narrow oblong obovate obtuse Ovary ovate ovate-oblong ovules panicles pedicels peduncles petals petioles pilose pods Port Natal Prod pubescent purple racemes River scapes Seeds segments sepals sessile short shorter shrub shrubby slender solitary Sond species specimens spreading Stamens stem sterile filaments stigma stipules style sub-sessile subulate suffruticose terete terminal Thunb Thunberg tomentose toothed twice as long twigs Uitenhage umbels uncial upper velvetty villous virgate Willd Zeyher
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Стр. 66 - A curious Herbal, containing five hundred cuts of the most useful plants which are now used in the practice of physic, engraved on folio copper plûtes, afler drawings taken from the life, by Elizabeth Blackwell. To which is added, a short description of the plants, and their common uses in physic, ? vols, folio.
Стр. 467 - Stamens as many as the lobes of the corolla and alternate with them, or fewer.
Стр. vi - Transvaal district," he writes1, " contains not only new species, but new genera ; and some of the latter are of so marked and isolated a character, as to lead us to infer in the same region the existence of unknown types that may better connect them with Genera or Orders already known.
Стр. 228 - ... exstipulate. Flowers hermaphrodite, mostly axillary and solitary, or spiked or racemed towards the ends of the branches, sub-irregular.. Calyx-tube wholly adnate to the ovary (half-adnate in Trupd), limb with 2-5 valvate lobes.
Стр. 13 - Petals 4, cruciate, parallel ; the 2 outer, either one or both, saccate at the base ; the two inner callous and coloured at the apex, where they cohere and enclose the anthers and stigma. Stamens 6, in two parcels, opposite the outer petals.
Стр. v - PREFACE, IN undertaking the FLORA CAPENSIS, the authors propose to furnish to the colonists in the British South African provinces a clear and concise descriptive catalogue of the vegetable productions of their adopted country. As the colonies have no very definite limits to the northward, neither have the authors been anxious to fix a boundary line to this Flora. Generally speaking, the Cape Flora is limited on the North by the...
Стр. viii - These parcels, received while the last sheet of this volume was passing through the press, contain several new plants ; and among other things of interest is a specimen (leaf and flowers) of the " Elephant'n Trunk," that most singular of Naraaquan plants, and which proves to be a species of Adwuum (A.
Стр. v - River, and on the East by the Tugela — boundaries more convenient than natural, for the Orange River at its western extremity rather flows through, than bounds the peculiar Desert Flora of Namaqualand ; and the Tugela merely limits the British Colony of Natal, while the characteristic vegetation of Kafferland, of which Natal is a section, extends northward at least to Delagoa Bay, gradually assuming the features of Tropical African vegetation.
Стр. v - Transvaal, especially of its mountains and high plateaux, this country promises to the botanist the richest harvest yet ungathered in South Africa." After examining the specimens from different collectors, I have thought it well to record the three other species which are found in the country. Like all the Cape species they come under the subgenus...
Стр. 291 - The flowers vary from scarlet and crimson through all shades of red to pure white."— Harvey.